yearn・ingの英語

語源 1

From 中期英語 yerning, from 古期英語 ġierning, ġierninge. Equivalent to the gerund (yearn + -ing). yearn comes from Proto-West Germanic *girnijan, from Proto-Germanic *girnijaną, from *gernaz (“eager, willing”) + *-janą, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰer- (“to yearn for”). By surface analysis, yearn +‎ -ing.

名詞

yearning (plural yearnings)

1. A wistful or melancholy longing.

   She had a yearning to see her long-lost sister again.

関連する語

• yearn

動詞

yearning

1. present participle and gerund of yearn
   • 1964, “Where Did Our Love Go?”, performed by The Supremes:

     I've got this burning, yearning, yearning / Feeling inside me / Ooh, deep inside me / And it hurts so bad

語源 2

From earlier yerning, from 中期英語 yernyng, erning, renning. From 古期英語 rynning and gerunnen, geurnen (“run together, coagulated, curdled”), past participles of gerinnan, geirnan, respectively. Influenced by 中期英語 yern (“to (cause to) coagulate or curdle”), 古期英語 iernan (“to run, flow”), metathesized forms derived from the same origin. From verbal prefix ge- + rinnan (“to run”). First element is from Proto-West Germanic *ga-, from Proto-Germanic *ga-, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm (“with, by”); second element is from Proto-Germanic *rinnaną, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃r̥-néw-ti, from *h₃er- (“to move”). Doublet of rennet, run.

名詞

yearning (countable and uncountable, plural yearnings)

1. (Scotland, archaic) Rennet (an enzyme to curdle milk in order to make cheese).
   • 1808, Elizabeth Hamilton, Cottagers of Glenburnie:

     Mrs. MacClarty then took down a bottle of rennet, or yearning, as she called it.

関連する語

• yearn
• earn
• rennet

アナグラム

• renaying